Well, this is not too unusual. Many Brits that do well retire young in the Sun, but, as our Psyche is more attuned to many years of work in a dank, grey environment we tend to forget that we are not just on Holiday. That leads to too much exposure to the Sun, excessive Alchohol consumption and if you smoke heavier smoking, excessive high fats in the diet etc. This in turns leads to poor health and early death.
I lived as an expatriate for many years in the Sun, I was surrounded by Northern Europeans, particularly Brits, that drank and smoked and ate to excess, I ballooned to 16 Stone, coughed all the time, drank the equivalent of a 4 bottles of Scotch a week --- very easy to do!
Fortunately I was given some pretty strong warnings by the old body and cut down drastically.
Great fun, but a short life!